Abstract: Despite Rwanda great geographic, cultural and demographic diversity, it shares many challenges and issues that are fundamental to improving the quality and relevance of TVET as a means of human resources development. Rwanda must consider a coherent strategy for human development in which TVET plays an important role. Among the critical issues that must be considered when planning TVET programs to develop Rwanda, human resources are the following: Population growth and urbanization; poverty and lack of income-generating capacity; increase demands for literacy and secondary and technical education; and pollution and environmental degradation. The Education Sector Policy was developed in 2003. Since then several sub-sector policies have/are being developed and TVET is one of them. TVET comprises of all fields of initial and continuing Technical and Vocational Education and Training. It covers all kinds and levels of trades offered/to be offered in Rwanda. Interest of researcher is to identify the journeys into self-employment taken by TVET graduates young people from Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Rwanda. Researcher engaged qualitative method throughout this work and different literature documents related to the topic were reviewed. The sample size was 35 graduates of all graduates and school officers of TVET secondary schools in Burera district. Questionnaire, interview and observation were used as research tools to collect information from the field.
Keywords: Despite Rwanda great geographic, technical education, Education Sector Policy, TVET.
Title: SELF-EMPLOYMENT BY TVET GRADUATES YOUNG PEOPLE FROM TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN RWANDA
Author: NAMBAJIMANA CLEMENTINE, Dr. MBONIMANA Gamariel
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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